Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life as an athlete did not begin for Denmark's Bendtsine Bendtsen until she was over 40. At that sedate age, she began practicing gymnastics with the local ladies' team and pedaling a bicycle through the countryside. Last week, after first getting permission from her teacher, Bendtsine made her big try for a gold badge awarded by the Danish Athletic Association...
Niels Bohr, one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, whom Oppenheimer affectionately refers to as "my father," was interviewed in his native Denmark by TIME "stringer," Kai Schou. A Nobel prize winner and one of the leaders in the fellowship of physics whom Oppenheimer first met at Cambridge University, Bohr had escaped from Nazi-occupied Denmark to collaborate with Oppenheimer and the other scientists in the research and development of the atomic bomb...
...play tells of Denmark Vesey (Juano Hernandez), a slave who earned his freedom and conspired to set his people free. Secretly gaining thousands of followers, he particularly sought out an influential head slave named George Wilson (Canada Lee), who was torn between his race and a kind master. In a nightmare of conflicting loyalties, George blurted out the plot and betrayed his people...
...author of Porgy, far from providing here a crude checkerboard of right & wrong, shows a humane understanding of both blacks and whites, of liberator and deliberator. At its strongest, in the well-acted clashes between Denmark and George, the play becomes resonant and vivid. But, itself a slave to history, it sprawls and jerks across twelve years and ten scenes, and, lacking a center, becomes a lumpy mixture of chronicle, drama, melodrama and tragedy. What is most effective is the conflict between the two men, but what arouses most interest is the conflict within one of them. The main trouble...
...rest, recover and refresh themselves before continuing on their way. He wanted an international clientele at his Grand Hotel. Expatriate and exiled scholars have always been welcome at the Institute, but Oppenheimer had something different in mind: a continuous world traffic in ideas. For such foreign scholars as Denmark's Bohr and Britain's Dirac and Toynbee, Oppenheimer hoped to work out periodic repeat performances, so that they would never wholly lose touch either with the U.S. or with home base. Said Oppenheimer: "The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person...